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I selected vibrant shades of green with accents of red, green and gold, color-coded to guide the fans toward the dining, beverage or lounge areas.
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The Hawthorne Wellness Center provides many
treatment disciplines. Over a dozen treatment rooms, the offices,
and waiting room were reborn from an overused office complex.
The new colors and materials we selected contribute to a truly
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Basic French Zinc Bistrot rises from
Zefiro ashes

Maybe 500 N.W. 21stAve. in Portland will reprise its former fame.
Recognize that address?

It was the home of the now defunct Zefiro, Bruce Carey's pace-setting
spot that thrust Portland food into the national limelight and
has left this area glowing in it 10 years later.

Now the warm-walled Zinc Bistrot -- thanks to the eye of Mary McMurray, color consultant -- has opened
at that address, and yes, the 'T' should be at the tail end of
that all too familiar "bistro."

Co-owner Susan Sarich and Houston Striggow, a Chicago food
couple with Levy Restaurants, Lettuce Entertain You and five-star
French chef Jean Joho on their resumes, have done their research
and revamped the place to look urbanely urban-French.

after: the Zinc Bistrot at opening. Photo by Holly Stickley

Though "bistro" has become overused to mean just
about everything informal and trendy, the old spelling, "bistrot,"
conjures up back-to-basics, wine-on-the-table, says Sarich, who
thinks clearly in concepts. Fresh baked baguettes, a zinc-topped
bar (a Parisian thing), steak frites (you know them as french
fries), coq au vin (a traditional French chicken dish), 12-foot
communal tables and "plat du jours" are part of the
scene, which judging by the shoulder-to-shoulder June 8 opening,
will be well-received. What lucky timing, as "Moulin Rouge"
can-cans at the same time.

A "Napoleon's tent" a private dining area draped
in red velvet, a tribute to Napoleon's penchant for eating well
during battle, is not part of that unfussy concept, but it is
French and will no doubt be popular in an outré sort of way.